Sacramento man's Berkeley death called suspicious

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Sacramento State University student, Nicholas Bailey, 21. Bailey was found unconscious Friday, July 2, 2010, near the Univeristy of California Berkeley campus and died Sunday, July 4, 2010. Courtesy Bailey family. less

Sacramento State University student, Nicholas Bailey, 21. Bailey was found unconscious Friday, July 2, 2010, near the Univeristy of California Berkeley campus and died Sunday, July 4, 2010. Courtesy Bailey ... more

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Sacramento State University student, Nicholas Bailey, 21. Bailey was found unconscious Friday, July 2, 2010, near the Univeristy of California Berkeley campus and died Sunday, July 4, 2010. Courtesy Bailey family. less

Sacramento State University student, Nicholas Bailey, 21. Bailey was found unconscious Friday, July 2, 2010, near the Univeristy of California Berkeley campus and died Sunday, July 4, 2010. Courtesy Bailey ... more

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Sacramento man's Berkeley death called suspicious

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The death of a Sacramento State University student near the UC Berkeley campus is being considered suspicious, authorities said Tuesday.

Nicholas Bailey, 21, was found unconscious on the 2500 block of Haste Street shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, according to UC Berkeley police and his family. He was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was removed from life support on Sunday, after organs were donated, said his sister Kristen Bailey, 16, of Vallejo.

The victim had sustained head trauma and had been last seen at about 1:30 a.m. Friday at Blakes on Telegraph, a popular restaurant and bar a block south of UC Berkeley, authorities said.

Kristen Bailey said her brother had gone to Berkeley on Thursday night with a friend from Holy Names University in Oakland, which the victim had attended for a year on a basketball scholarship. The friend reported that the two had left Blakes and that Bailey had told him to wait near the victim's Toyota Camry while Bailey walked a woman to her car, Kristen Bailey said.

She said her brother had graduated from Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward and was to have entered his senior year at Sacramento State, where he was studying criminal justice. He had planned to attend law school after graduating, she said.

"He was a good student and a very lovable and caring person to all his friends," she said.

She said her family has many unanswered questions about what led to his death, which came as she and her family had been in Los Angeles looking at college campuses.

Anyone with information is asked to call UC Berkeley police at (510) 642-6760.